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Obama takes a stand on race -- in a divisive case
Making his first foray into a divisive racial issue, President Barack Obama sided with Henry Louis Gates Jr. after the black scholar's arrest by a white police officer, a striking departure from Obama's "post-racial" impartiality.
Nations:U.S. People:Barack Obama Source:(AP)
2009-07-23
NAACP tries to woo the hip-hop generation
New York - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, America's largest and oldest civil rights organization, is now trying to appeal to the so-called hip-hop generation.
Nations:U.S. Source:(Christian Science Monitor)
2009-07-19
Obama: Civil rights leaders paved way for him
NEW YORK - President Barack Obama on Thursday traced his historic rise to power to the vigor and valor of black civil rights leaders, telling the NAACP that their sacrifice "began the journey that has led me here." The nation's first black president bluntly warned, though, that racial barriers persist.
Nations:U.S. Kenya People:Barack Obama Source:(AP)
2009-07-16
Motor City's woes extend beyond auto industry
DETROIT - One measure of how tough times are in the Motor City: Some of the offenders in jail don't want to be released; some who do get out promptly re-offend to head back where there's heat, health care and three meals a day.
Nations:U.S. Activities:2008 U.S. Recession
2008-12-20
NAACP report find TV networks lagging in diversity
LOS ANGELES - Nearly a decade after the NAACP condemned a "virtual whiteout" in broadcast TV, the civil rights group said major networks have stalled in their efforts to further ethnic diversity on-screen and off.
Nations:U.S. People:Will Smith Laurence Fishburne Source:(AP)
2008-12-18
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